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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2007 09:15:21 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Marijn van Vliet <w.m.vanvliet@student.utwente.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Xorg 7.2 update
Message-ID:  <20070528161521.GA87124@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070528074747.GA81264@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org>
References:  <E461B827-C0BA-4126-8BD1-83E60BA81884@earthlink.net> <b41c75520705271047od3375bdk449653e2edc70edc@mail.gmail.com> <20070527215727.GD67158@lassie.student.utwente.nl> <20070528003710.GB13910@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20070528005004.GA45015@kobe.laptop> <20070528074747.GA81264@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org>

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On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 09:47:47AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 1st of all, thanks for providing 7.2 in the tree !
> 
> I had another little problem with xorg. While you did an upgrade
> installation, I nuked all of my ports and started over.
> 
> I discovered, that an installation by compiling all myself failed
> very early.
> 
> Its easily to reproduce by installing on a vanilla empty system.
> 
> Sorry I didn't save the error message.
> 
> Therefore I needed to pkg_add -r everything 1st, after that I
> used portupgrade to be up to date.
> 

I also nuked /usr/X11R6, /usr/local, /var/db/pkg, and /var/db/ports.
Instead of pkg_add -r, if you do "setenv XORG_UPGRADE yes", everything
proceeds as expected.  Yes, it seems weird that one needs to set XORG_UPGRADE
on a seemingly clean system.

-- 
Steve



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